The Billionaire's Secret Quartet

Chapter 851

Heat hung heavy and thick in the air.

It tantalized Thalassa’s senses, causing her taut heart to skip a beat.

No one understood Lysander’s current state better than she did.

Her internal alarm bells were sounding, but she was paralyzed and frozen in place.

In silence, she held Elowen’s soft and little body in her arms. Behind her, Lysander’s broad, heated chest enveloped her; his arms were wrapping around her, and his hot breath was falling on the nape of her neck.

She was torn between protecting her precious baby and the imminent danger of the beast that could tear her to shreds at any moment.

Time ticked away.

Elowen grew softer in her arms. She had fallen asleep.

had no clue if he was asleep or

but a low, magnetic male voice

funeral?” His voice was laced with a hint of

was going to move, suddenly froze; her nerves

her puzzled and alarmed, unable to decipher his intentions or his current state

dead. Didn’t that

when she didn’t respond.

“Of course I regret it. Who wouldn’t be regretful for not

come to me?” Lysander

his head as he spoke. He kept his posture to hold Thalassa as his face nuzzled her neck. His words, transformed into breath, brushed against her vulnerable skin,

dared not

you, it would have put you in a difficult

Zephyr had explicitly forbidden her from attending Leopold’s funeral, Thalassa had abandoned the idea